Any idea about the 'error' at all? Just want to know if it's a recognized double die, or machine doubling. Haven't 'seen' Bill from Burl around for a while -- our resident representative from the League of Extraordinary Numismatists.

Sometimes I think it's just the three of us. I ask a question, one of you two answer it. haha

I'm deer and hog hunting out in Okla. I normally just answer questions on Vicky large cents, unless it's something that I'm familiar with ... I'm not much into silver, but it looks like a repunch to me.

Bill in Burl wrote:I'm deer and hog hunting out in Okla. I normally just answer questions on Vicky large cents, unless it's something that I'm familiar with ... I'm not much into silver, but it looks like a repunch to me.

Thanks guys.

Hey Bill (or anyone who can help)... just to clarify, 'repunch', would that be what we simpletons south of the border call double die? When I see repunch I think RPM, and this is lettering. Sorry, there's just so many different terms used in the at the opposite ends of the 15 minutes the Canadian border is from my house. Ha-ha.

My personal definition of a repunch is that a working die has a letter or digit weakening or damaged. The guy on the mint floor takes a handpunch and repunches the character until it looks right, but they never get it exactly on. That may not be the right term, but it's what I say and understand.

When they are making the working dies from the hub, it takes 2-4 pressings after hardening and annealing cycles to fully complete the working die. Working dies are usually not completed fully in the same day or week or month sometimes. Sometimes the 2nd or 3rd pressings aren't exactly on and you get many characters seemingly doubled .. almost looking like mechanical doubling in a way, but the doublings in that case are crisp rather than a 'shadowing' effect from MD.